Surfing the Void by The Klaxons

Surfing the Void, Klaxons' second album, came out on Polydor on 23 August 2010, three years after their debut, Myths of the Near Future, had won the Mercury Prize. Getting here was a slog. The London band first went back to original producer James Ford, but in March 2009 word got out that Polydor had rejected the early recordings as too experimental and wanted parts redone. They started over in Los Angeles with Ross Robinson, working from November 2009 to February 2010, and came back with noise rock and electronic rock crashing into each other, with James Righton on keyboards and vocals and Simon Taylor-Davis on guitar.

"Echoes" arrived a week ahead of the album as the lead single. Critics mostly liked it and heard a band moving on from the debut; it reached number ten in the UK and gave them their first entry in Australia, debuting at 15 on the ARIA Charts.

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